On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Richard Lyman <richard.ly...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:36 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Richard Lyman <richard.ly...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Everything's on github - right? The simplest commands to grab the core
> >> (and contrib?) from github as well as the commands to keep updating
> >> every week or so until release would be fantastic.
> >
> > git clone url, to get it
> > git pull, to update it
> > git fetch, to grab the other branches
> > git checkout branch, to switch to a branch
> > ant, to build the branch you are on.
>
> Do I need any branches? What are the branches? I thought that when a
> branch was stable it would be merged back into master (if I'm using
> the right terms).
>

Yes master is the stable branch. Branches besides master are often where new
work is being done - some of which might get merged back into master. You
don't need them, but Rich Hickey is pretty good at putting really
interesting and very serious work into a branch. For example the prim and
num branches have some stunning performance improvements for code that
relies on fast arithmetic.


> >>
> >> All of this is assuming, hopefully incorrectly, that there's no
> >> automated nightly JAR that's being produced and made available
> >> somewhere.
> >
> > The clojure master branch is being built continuously here,
> > http://build.clojure.org/
>
> When you say master branch, do you mean just core, or does that include
> contrib?
>
> Speaking of which: Should I still care about contrib? I remember
> hearing that several items had been merged into core...
>

Hudson has builds of clojure as well as clojure-contrib. There's plenty of
interesting stuff going on in clojure-contrib.

David

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